Troy, On Aug 15, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Troy Poppe wrote:
Based on your description of the first request, now that I understand a bit of the 'under-the-covers', let me ask it a different way. Is there a way for me to add a Map that will be used for extracting information from my device? Can the GUI be extended such that it displays this new information as part of the 'Hardware' tab? Could this GUI extension be dynamic, such that adding a Map would also extend the GUI? Perhaps too much to bite off...
Collection extension is pretty easy (write a new collection plugin). GUI can be extended by modifying the UI templates (not too hard). New model creation requires adding new Classes to the ZenModel package (kind of hard). New maps dynamically changing model schema plus new UI is for zenoss 3000. ;)
As for the second request, I'm looking to have a tab after 'Hardware' / 'Software' to be 'Database', for example. On this tab I would display the information related to the database that runs on this machine. Let's say I had an Oracle database server on a machine, I would have some information about the TNS Listener, 0-to- many instances, and relevant information about the instances. Maybe some information about tablespaces, etc.
Again this is all doable today. But you need to get fairly deep into the system to add this type of stuff.
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